| This blog is written by Sodabowski | 53 entries so far |
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Side post : ancient wood finishing recipes from the French Masters (Boulle & Watin)
Hi Jocks, in a blog post from my buddy Shipwright, where he experiments with finishes and thei...
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Building a better woodshop #4: bandsaw inserts holder
Hi folks,This completed project dates back to June 2016, I didn’t find the time to post so ...
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Shop-built bandsaw sawmill #3: mobile frame all welded up! - July-August 2017
Hi guys, The holidays have been a mix of cleaning, finishing the bedroom, and general sorting ...
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Shop-built bandsaw sawmill #2: first welds and preparing the threaded rods - July 2016
Well for the first welds sorry, I forgot to take pictures. Long story short, I started by welding...
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Shop-built bandsaw sawmill #1: the plan
Hi guys, After visiting Les fils de J. George several years ago for the first time, my vision ...
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Spalters Inc. #14: more study results
Hi all, Long time since the last installment. So, after using most of my time this year as ...
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Spalters Inc. #13: Pushing the studies on Chlorociboria to their ultimate goal
Hi guys, Quick update: I’m pursuing my internship at the C2RMF these days, and we’...
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Spalters Inc. #12: Essential reading: upcoming book from the scientific authority!
Quick update since I’m short on spare time these days with all the work at the universi...
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Miscellaneous kitchenalia #3: Homemade pizza
Long ago, I promised a detailed set of pictures on how I make these staples of the Italian cuisin...
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Homemade tools and hardware #7: Prototype bakelite vise after jeweler's version
Hi all, Here is my first copy of this great design from the 30’s. I won the original...
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Homebrew natural wood stains #2: tea and iron acetate, aka ebonizing wood with vinegar
‘sup all, Mads threw the bait and I just couldn’t resist the urge to chew it up.Si...
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Jewelry Boxes Journey #2: Introducing Mrs Sodabowski a.k.a. BlueMagic
So my significant other finally made the jump and signed-up here. Her first project, actually a c...
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Leatherwork #2: vintage Schuh/Ebony-inspired leather shoes for my wife
So, some of the ladies out here might remember this model from the 90’s: Several nice...
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Homebrew natural wood stains #1: essential oils distillation apparatus
Hi all, In this series I will showcase some hardware stuff I will build along the way to produ...
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Spalters Inc. #11: Progress on the green elf cup's pigment
Hi Jocks, Working on and off on that fungus still. There’s been considerable progress on...
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Never say "never" :) when things settle for the best
Hi LJs! First of all I wish all of you a very happy 2014, full of sawdust and splinters and lu...
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thanks all for the good times, time to go for me
Hi all, I can’t stay here any longer because almost everything was related to her. She d...
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Deluxe Basement #2: Stairway to Hell
Once we had a decent working opening to the basement, I made my fourth and last iteration of the ...
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Deluxe Basement #1: Symphony Of Destruction (ie making a decent opening for the stairs and coating the walls)
So after four iterations of the plan and much useless discussion with the parents about how bette...
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Building a better woodshop #3: MagLight ;)
Quick post on improving the short-range working conditions in the shop: overhead fluo lights are ...
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Steampunk clock #1: Prep work: homemade fully working analog dial indicator
Hi guys, So for that steampunk clock I’ll be building for my father I need decorative pr...
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Photography contest entry (aka Pallets in Scientific Art)
Hi LJs ;) A contest has been running at my university since January 7th. Neat subject: “...
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Miscellaneous kitchenalia #2: small pan rehandling
Hi guys. So this baby here needed a new handle, the plastic ones being designed to not last. E...
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Miscellaneous kitchenalia #1: Letz Dem Nom Caek!
Yeah, right, Joe? ;) ^^
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Leatherwork #1: the mandatory pencil case
Fed up of carrying my pencils in the basic, cheap, crappy chinese plywood sliding top pencil case...
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Jewelry Boxes Journey #1: 777 days of LumberJocks
Hi guys, look what kind of trouble you have all put me into: 777 days and $57 later, this ...
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Homemade tools and hardware #6: bandsaw progress
Quick update on the whereabouts of my homemade bandsaw.Glueing-up the bottom wheel support: ...
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Crappy tool improvement: router lock lever
Cheap 20€ router from big box store: Plus plastic lock lever: Equals a lot of frust...
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Homemade tools and hardware #5: bandsaw build progress
This is my soap dispenser. There are many others like it but this one is mine. And once it...
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Building a better woodshop #2: motorized ceiling cord reel: early plan and BoM
Here is a screenshot of the first prototype plan from top and side views. Full size here. ...
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Building a better woodshop #1: motorized ceiling cord reel: preliminary calculations
So after considering the possibilities, tinkering with the numbers, considering the (said) potent...
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Homemade tools and hardware #4: Little disgression: homemade ceiling cord reel prototype idea
To follow Al's blog entry, here is a quick little preview of a possible way to build a shop-made ...
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Spalters Inc. #10: Predashun: I haz it
Or better yet: when the dreaded tree-killing mushroom from hell finds its own slayer. Thes...
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Remember the plum pencil I made a while ago?
Well the guys over at Cook Woods just happen to have listed some of the same wood! Enjoy ;)
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Homemade tools and hardware #3: Quickslap pen lathe update
Hi guys, On the “fast & furious” series, I had some nice time with the parents...
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Spalters Inc. #9: STM vs xylindein: STM WINS!
Hi guys. So, to sum it up, this is Chlorociboria, a.k.a. “the mean tiny hulk”: Making n...
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Wood gloat, countryside style
Hey guys! I don’t remember if I told you peeps about this one. Last summer I took home t...
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Spalters Inc. #8: fast-extracted xylindein
Hi guys, So in an effort to gear up my lab stuff, I recently bought a cheap peristaltic pump o...
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Pens & pouches galore #1: not the first, but the latest
.. and it dates from this very evening. Hey everybody. I’ve bin bitten to the bone by the p...
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Spalters Inc. #7: First (preliminary) determination of decay temperature of Xylindein
So here it is: the first attempt at determining the temperature at which the pigment produced by ...
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Spalters Inc. #6: determining the temperature of destruction of xylindein
Hey guyzz, So little time these days with all the work at the university. But I finally settle...
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Homemade tools and hardware #2: pen turning lathe prototype
Hey guys! Back from the mountains (alas, too soon). First this quickie blog post about what...
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Spalters Inc. #5: Second attempt preliminary results: win
Hey guys, Out of the six compartments that I inoculated with Chlorociboria Aeruginosa in my pe...
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Someone wanted to be cursed, someone needed to be nursed
Well today the postsman took me out of bed with an unexpected parcel. Having nothing pending from...
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Spalters Inc. #4: Second culture attempts
So the admin of a french mycology website sent me several fresh pieces of Salix with lots of frui...
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Poor man's sterile fungi grow box #2: the air-ducting base plate
This post is about making the base and its two routed layers. Here I’m routing the air d...
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Poor man's sterile fungi grow box #1: Project overview
In this series I will follow the making of a specially-designed box for petri dishes into which I...
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Spalters Inc. #3: First culture attempts update, and eye candy.
Hey guys, Just for a quick update. The cultures I attempted last time did actually work to som...
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Spalters Inc. #2: hunting for Chlorociboria sp, take two: WIN.
Hey guys, So basically I had the chance to get back to my southern village a few days ago. Hav...
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Homemade tools and hardware #1: mini-tablesaw prototype
Hey guys, This is a first attempt at making a homemade tablesaw for cutting thin material.I sl...
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Spalters Inc. #1: pictures of an early colonization by Chlorociboria aeruginascens
Hey guys, Having recently decided that I couldn’t continue refering to the blue-green st...
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LJs meetings in Paris,France #2: Junk food with MaFe
Well after a quick shopping tour at my workplace, we settled for a while at the nearby Quick JFoo...
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LJs meetings in Paris,France #1: Beers with MaFe
Well in fact Mads already said it all, so I’ll merely add two of the few pictures I took. ...
